"still the regimental commander for the 16th Infantry Regiment, which took many casualties in the initial assault. He found the remnants of his exhausted and shell-shocked men pinned down along the seawall. He was able to motivate, organize and lead the attack inland. His famous quote from Omaha Beach: Taylor is sometimes confused with General Norman Cota, who was also on the beach that day, but in a different sector with a different unit, the U.S. 29th Infantry Division. Both officers rallied the troops under fire. In the film ""The Longest Day"" General Cota (played by Robert Mitchum) was given"
"Benjamin H. Vandervoort Benjamin Hayes ""Vandy"" Vandervoort (3 March 1917 in Gasport, New York – 22 November 1990 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina) was an officer of the United States Army, who fought in World War II. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. He was portrayed by John Wayne in the D-Day film ""The Longest Day"". Vandervoort attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where he was a member of the Washington Players drama club, the YMCA, the Mount Vernon Literary Society, and the football and track teams. He was also an officer of the Theta Chi fraternity."
"belt for tourniquet material to medic Russell J. York of his division at York's request. Lives were saved, and a Silver Star was personally awarded to Technician (Medical) 4th Grade York by General Barton for his actions. Barton died in 1963 and was buried at Westover Memorial Park in Augusta, Georgia. In the film ""The Longest Day"" he is played by Edmond O'Brien. He appears in a scene where he allows his assistant division commander, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (played by Henry Fonda), to lead the division ashore at D-Day. Raymond O. Barton Major General Raymond Oscar ""Tubby"" Barton (August 22,"
"The Longest Day (film) The Longest Day is a 1962 epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book ""The Longest Day"" (1959), about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, who paid author Ryan $175,000 for the film rights. The screenplay was by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, and Jack Seddon. It was directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), and Bernhard Wicki (German scenes). ""The Longest Day"", which was made in black"
"of a destroyer commander in the epic war film ""The Longest Day"" (1962). For playing a survivor of the Holocaust in the drama ""The Pawnbroker"" (1964), he garnered a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the same category. The following year, he was cast in the role of a ruthless Russian politician ""Doctor Zhivago"", which was the biggest box-office success of the 1960s, and was included in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. He won an Academy, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for"
"as Larry Slade, Tom Pedi as Rocky Pioggi, Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, Martyn Green as Cecil Lewis, Moses Gunn as Joe Mott, George Voskovec as The General (Piet Wetjoen) and Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt. This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. The film run time is 239 minutes. Dialog was consistently trimmed for time as might be done for a stage production. The character of Ed Mosher was excised entirely. There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from"
"Bob Gunton Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film ""The Shawshank Redemption"", Chief George Earle in 1993's ""Demolition Man"", Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in ""Patch Adams"", and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of ""Evita"", for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He also appears in the ""Daredevil"" TV series as Leland Owlsley. Gunton was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Rose Marie"
"enjoyed the play and invited Burton to the White House for a visit. In 1962 Burton appeared as Officer David Campbell, an RAF fighter pilot in ""The Longest Day"", which included a large ensemble cast featuring: McDowall, George Segal, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and Sean Connery. The same year he provided narration for the Jack Howells documentary ""Dylan Thomas"". The short won the Best Documentary Short Subject at the 35th Academy Awards ceremony. After performing ""Camelot"" for six months, in July 1961, Burton met producer Walter Wanger who asked him to replace Stephen Boyd"
"used more extensively during a late 1960s re-release of the film. ""The Longest Day"" was released on DVD on November 6, 2001. The Longest Day (film) The Longest Day is a 1962 epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book ""The Longest Day"" (1959), about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, who paid author Ryan $175,000 for the film rights. The screenplay was by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, and Jack Seddon. It was directed by Ken"
"II) and a daughter(Marlin Vandervoort). In the early 1990s, the United States Army Center for Leadership at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, selected one or two colonels or lieutenant colonels from every American War from the Revolution to Vietnam. Colonel Vandervoort was selected as the outstanding ground battle commander for World War II. He is honored by a brief biography and several photographs in what is known as ""Leadership Hallway"" located on the second floor of Bell Hall. Vandervoort was portrayed by actor John Wayne in the film version of Cornelius Ryan's history of D-Day, ""The Longest Day"". The role was actively"
"time as the President's Secretary of State. Gunton portrays Leland Owlsley in the 2015 TV series ""Daredevil"". Gunton made a guest appearance on in January 2017. Bob Gunton Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film ""The Shawshank Redemption"", Chief George Earle in 1993's ""Demolition Man"", Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in ""Patch Adams"", and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of ""Evita"", for which he received a"
"Allied military consultants to have actually been on the beach on June 6. In the film, he was portrayed by Hans Christian Blech. Werner Pluskat Werner Pluskat (1912 11 June 2002) was a major, commanding the 1st Battalion of the 352nd Artillery Regiment of the German 352nd Infantry Division during the Allied invasion in Normandy. He was credited in the movie ""The Longest Day"", a film about the D-Day invasion, with being the first German officer who saw the Allied invasion fleet on 6 June 1944, heading toward their landing zone at Omaha Beach. ""Oberleutnant"" (M.A.) Walter Ohmsen, commander of"
"a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."" The film was deliberately cast with actors who were not true box-office stars, in order to place the emphasis on the story rather than the actors who were in it. The original cast list had included many Japanese amateurs. Cast in credits order: Veteran 20th Century Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck, who had earlier produced ""The Longest Day"" (1962), wanted to create an epic that depicted what ""really happened on December 7, 1941"", with a ""revisionist's approach"". He believed that the commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, though"
"Cameron Dayton reveals that there is a ""casual path"" for new and casual players where they can progress with the story, while a ""hardcore"" path, which is considered the official canon, exists with hidden objectives, and expands more on the story beyond what the casual path contains. On June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Private First Class Ronald ""Red"" Daniels (Brett Zimmerman) of the 1st Infantry Division takes part in the Normandy landings with his platoon, consisting of Private First Class Robert Zussman (Jonathan Tucker), Private Drew Stiles (Kevin Coubal), Technician Fifth Grader Frank Aiello (Jeff Schine), Technical Sergeant William Pierson"
"Ford's casting Ricardo Montalbán and Gilbert Roland. The film was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by William H. Clothier, whose work was nominated for an Academy Award. Gilbert Roland earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The original version was 158 minutes, Ford's longest work. Warner Bros. later decided to edit the ""Dodge City"" sequence out of the film, reducing the running time to 145 minutes, although it was shown in theaters during the film's initial release. This sequence features James Stewart as Wyatt Earp and Arthur Kennedy as Doc Holliday. Some critics have argued that this"
"masquerading as carnival performers. Due to the Rio fiasco, The DEA enlists the support of the U.S. Army's Delta Force in order to infiltrate San Carlos. They are aided by an undercover agent within Cota's drug cartel. General Taylor orders Colonel Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) and his partner, Major Bobby Chavez (Paul Perri) to bring Cota to court. They pose as airline passengers while Cota is en route to Geneva to deposit his drug money in a Swiss bank account, and are able to capture him during a short interval in which the plane enters U.S. airspace. However, their efforts"
"Colin Maud Commodore Colin Douglas Maud DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar (21 January 1903 – 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who during the Second World War commanded the destroyers ""Somali"" and ""Icarus"" and acted as beach master of Juno beach at the D-day landings. With a heavy black beard, he ""possessed the outward appearance of a latter-day buccaneer and was endowed with exceptional boldness and tenacity to go with it"". His blackthorn stick and dog Winnie provided an image when portrayed by Kenneth More in the film ""The Longest Day"". He was described as ""one of the most"
"as a captain, he participated in Operation Tonga during the D-Day landings. He was among the first British soldiers to land in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. His battalion parachuted in after glider-borne forces had landed to capture the Pegasus Bridge near Caen. During the operation he met John Howard on the bridge and organized the repulse of several counter-attacks by the Wehrmacht forces holding the area. (Todd played Howard in the film ""The Longest Day"", recreating these events, while another actor played Todd.) After the war, Todd was unsure what direction to take in his career. His former"
"bothered with prisoners. The film was filmed in Cherbourg with a French cast and was set in the aftermath of the Normandy Landings where a group of Allied soldiers attempt to shelter Frenchmen who faced execution by the Nazis. As the US Department of Defense did not cooperate with the film, the American soldiers were played by French soldiers. Robert Parrish recalled that Darryl F. Zanuck made the film to use unused footage from ""The Longest Day"" with the film then marketed as a sequel. Cliff Robertson said he was given the Messerschmitt Bf 108 used in the film. Robertson"
"The Shortest Day The Shortest Day () is a 1962 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie ""The Longest Day"" and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles. Dozens of other well-known actors, from both European and American cinema, agreed to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free to avert the bankruptcy of the production company, Titanus. Two Sicilians, Franco and Ciccio, are taken from a small town in Sicily and shipped out with a unit in the Italian army which has to fight the Austrian troops in"
"Nicolas Coster Nicolas Dwynn Coster (born December 3, 1933) is a British-born American actor, most known for his work in daytime drama and as a character actor on nighttime television series, such as ""Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"" and """". In 2017 he won a daytime Emmy for ""The Bay"". Coster was born in London to an American mother and a New Zealand father, famous London theatre critic and who was a Royal marine commando Nicolas Coster studied acting at RADA the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts as well as with Lee Strasberg in New York City. Nicolas"
"General Omar N. Bradley, US Army (James Remar), Lieutenant General George S. Patton, US Army (Gerald McRaney), General Bernard Montgomery, British Army (Bruce Phillips) and General Charles de Gaulle, Free French (George Shevtsov). The film does not have action sequences, focusing instead on the inner workings of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force that led to the successful D-Day invasion of World War II. Concentrating on decisions actually made by Eisenhower and the pressures brought to bear on him personally, it includes his personal relationship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) and his own Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General"
"Peter Finch (""Network""), Victor Fleming (""The Wizard of Oz""), Janet Gaynor (""A Star Is Born""), Curtis Harrington (""Night Tide""), Zoltan Korda (""The Thief of Bagdad""), Darren McGavin (""The Man with the Golden Arm""), Adolphe Menjou (""Paths of Glory""), Paul Muni (""Scarface""), Dudley Nichols (""Stagecoach""), Maila Nurmi (""Plan 9 from Outer Space""), Nelson Riddle (""Lolita""), Vito Scotti (""The Godfather""), Ann Sheridan (""They Drive by Night""), Constance and Norma Talmadge (""Intolerance"", ""Camille""), Eddie Little (""Another Day in Paradise""), Eddie Bunker (""Straight Time""), Gregg Toland (""Citizen Kane""), Edgar G. Ulmer (""Detour""), Peter Lorre (""Casablanca""), Clifton Webb (""Laura""), William Hurlbut (""Bride of Frankenstein"") and"
"made by Erwin Rommel to his aide Hauptmann Helmuth Lang on 22 April 1944: ""...the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive...the fate of Germany depends on the outcome...for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."" ""The Longest Day"" is also the name of a 1962 film based on the book, featuring many star actors. The Longest Day (book) The Longest Day is a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1959, telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy. It includes details of Operation Deadstick,"
"""Capote"" as Truman Capote 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk 2009: George Clooney – ""Up in the Air"" as Ryan Bingham 2010: James Franco – ""127 Hours"" as Aron Ralston 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass 2016:"
"Luke and Han with medals for their heroism. Other actors include Phil Brown and Shelagh Fraser, respectively, as Owen and Beru, Luke's uncle and aunt; Jack Purvis, Kenny Baker's partner in his London comedy act, as the Chief Jawa in the film; Eddie Byrne as Vanden Willard, a Rebel general; Denis Lawson and Garrick Hagon as rebel pilots Wedge Antilles and Biggs Darklighter (Luke's childhood friend), respectively. Don Henderson and Leslie Schofield appear as Imperial Generals Cassio Tagge and Moradmin Bast, respectively, and Richard LeParmentier plays Admiral Motti. Alex McCrindle portrays General Jan Dodonna, Alfie Curtis portrays Dr. Evazan and"
"Tom Tryon Thomas ""Tom"" Tryon (January 14, 1926September 4, 1991) was an American film and television actor as well as a novelist. He is best known for playing the title role in the film ""The Cardinal"" (1963), featured roles in the war films ""The Longest Day"" (1962) and ""In Harm's Way"" (1965) with John Wayne, and especially the Walt Disney television character ""Texas John Slaughter"" (1958–1961). He later turned to the writing of prose fiction and screenplays, and wrote several science fiction, horror and mystery novels. Thomas Tryon was born on January 14, 1926, in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of"
"film. On August 20, 2015, Toby Kebbell joined the cast of the film, while Jackson and Reilly were confirmed for roles. On August 25, 2015, Jason Mitchell joined the cast, to play a pilot. On September 25, 2015, John Goodman was cast to play Randa, a government official and leader of an expedition, and Thomas Mann was also cast. On October 1, 2015, John Ortiz and Shea Whigham were added to the cast in unspecified roles. On October 13, 2015, Eugene Cordero joined the film, and on November 2, 2015, it was announced Will Brittain had joined the cast, portraying"
"Norman Rossington Norman Rossington (24 December 1928 – 21 May 1999) was an English actor best remembered for his roles in ""The Army Game"", the ""Carry On"" films and the Beatles' film ""A Hard Day's Night"". Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of a publican, Rossington was educated at Sefton Park Elementary School and Liverpool Technical College. He left education at the age of 14. After that he lived a rather aimless adolescent life as messenger, office boy at Liverpool Docks and apprentice joiner. He did his national service in the RAF. Later, he went to night school and studied"
"natural causes in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, aged 86. As actor As producer As director Peter Cotes Peter Cotes (19 March 1912 – 10 November 1998) was an English director, producer, actor, writer and production manager. Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His twin brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. He was the original director of the world's longest-running production ""The Mousetrap"", still playing at the St Martins Theatre, London. He wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of Charlie Chaplin in 1951. He was"
"Regiment (PIR), whose parachute caught on the spire of the town church, and could only observe the fighting going on below. He hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before the Germans took him prisoner. Steele later escaped from the Germans and rejoined his division when US troops of the 3rd Battalion, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment attacked the village, capturing thirty Germans and killing another eleven. The incident was portrayed in the movie ""The Longest Day"" by actor Red Buttons. Later that morning, about 0500, a force led by Lt. Colonel Edward C. Krause of the 505th"
"originally scheduled on Channel 4 at 9 pm on 5 April 2007, but was rescheduled to 12 April 2007, in light of the detention of British service personnel by Iran. The film's title comes from Royal Irish Regiment Colonel Tim Collins's eve-of-battle speech in Iraq in 2003. The film begins with Private Shane Gulliver (Matthew McNulty) of the 1st Battalion, Northdale Rifles marching to a court martial. The film then cuts to Gulliver's arrival in Basra, Iraq with fellow soldier Mark Tate (Gerard Kearns). Once there, they are briefed by their commanding officer (CO), Major Godber (Shaun Dingwall), who tells"
"and as a bank guard in 1965's 'Hate Me A Little'. Don Haggerty Don Haggerty (July 3, 1914 – August 19, 1988) was an American actor of film and television. Before he began appearing in films in 1947, Haggerty was a Brown University athlete and served in the United States military. Usually cast as tough policemen or cowboys, he appeared in a number of memorable films including ""Sands of Iwo Jima"" (1949), ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1951), ""Angels in the Outfield"" (1951) and ""The Narrow Margin"". The B-movie actor continued to appear in films until the early 1980s. From 1954 to"